‘Peaky Blinders’ Set To Move From BBC Two To BBC One For Season 5 – Edinburgh
Peaky Blinders is set to get even bigger after the BBC moved the period gangster thriller from BBC Two to BBC One.
The scheduling move will likely mean that Steven Knight’s drama, centered around the Shelby crime family, will add to the 3.6M audience that tuned in for the finale of season four. That season was the period saga’s highest-rated ever and BBC Two’s most-watched drama of 2017. It recently scored Knight, who is already an Oscar nominee for 2004’s Dirty Pretty Things, his first BAFTA nomination in the Drama Writing category.
BBC Director of Content Charlotte Moore revealed that it was moving the Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions drama to the BBC’s main channel during the Edinburgh International TV festival.
She said that it was “cult viewing” among younger audiences and wants to take advantage of that. “When a show really pops like that,...
The scheduling move will likely mean that Steven Knight’s drama, centered around the Shelby crime family, will add to the 3.6M audience that tuned in for the finale of season four. That season was the period saga’s highest-rated ever and BBC Two’s most-watched drama of 2017. It recently scored Knight, who is already an Oscar nominee for 2004’s Dirty Pretty Things, his first BAFTA nomination in the Drama Writing category.
BBC Director of Content Charlotte Moore revealed that it was moving the Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions drama to the BBC’s main channel during the Edinburgh International TV festival.
She said that it was “cult viewing” among younger audiences and wants to take advantage of that. “When a show really pops like that,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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